On a recent Saturday night at La Brezza – the Bridgeland institution that’s sat in the same house on 1st Avenue N.E. since 1987 – the restaurant was buzzing. Tables of regulars who had clearly been going to the restaurant for decades passed around heaping platters of pasta while younger couples out for a date night shared calamari and other appetizers. As I dug into my own Italian feast, a table of six teenage boys, dressed in their best button-up shirts and slacks, sat down at the table beside me, out for a special dinner without any of their parents in sight. Article content

It was like nothing had changed in the years since the restaurant’s heyday in the 1980s and ‘90s, when La Brezza was the place to see and be seen in Calgary, especially on the night of any big Flames game. The only

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